transcription, транскрипция: [ les(ə)n ]
( lessons)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A lesson is a fixed period of time when people are taught about a particular subject or taught how to do something.
It would be his last French lesson for months...
Johanna took piano lessons.
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2.
You use lesson to refer to an experience which acts as a warning to you or an example from which you should learn.
There’s still one lesson to be learned from the crisis–we all need to better understand the thinking of the other side.
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If you say that you are going to teach someone a lesson , you mean that you are going to punish them for something that they have done so that they do not do it again.
PHRASE : V inflects